Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Pemuteran Bay
13 January, 2020
- Team Leader
- Ana Mestek
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 33.6 kgs (measured)
-8.143346484678, 114.65532647831
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Pemuteran Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Easy Divers Bali, Abyss Ocean World
- City
- Pemuteran
- Country
- Indonesia
- Date
- 13 January, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -8.143346484678
Longitude: 114.65532647831
- Weather Conditions
-
Mostly sunny, rain for an hour every couple of days.
- Survey Depth Range
- 0.5–9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2700 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- sand, seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1340 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 20 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Diapers/nappies | 22 |
| Fishing: Line | 9 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 113 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 29 |
| Plastic Fragments | 243 |
| Cigarette Filters | 4 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 3 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 70 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 3 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 155 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 4 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Female hygenic product | 4 |
| Face mask (plastic) | 1 |
| A chunk of styrofoam | 1 |
| Sponge | 1 |
| Headband | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Sea urchin |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Plastic |
| Comments | Again, another poor sea urchin, trying to decorate itself with plastic. |
Additional Information
New Year's eve, beginning of rainy season.
Fireworks
Plastic bags (single use)
Food wrappers
Diapers
Comments and Feedback
The trash bags from Dive Against Debris are unfortunately too weak to hold any weight. 2 ripped almost immediately and became plastic waste. We urge the AWARE team to replace them with more durable and useful mesh bags as it's disheartening to stand up for a cause just to use bags that are trash as well.
The event was organized by Easy Divers Bali, Abyss Ocean World (Pemuteran) and Hibiscus House Pemuteran, Bali. We planned to make it an underwater/beach cleanup, but unfortunately, no volunteers to clean the beach showed up. Nevertheless, we did our best and had a great time.
